Hi Jerome,
Since I only want a text file and do not care about color as I will likely
only need to run this twice, your program sounds like the ticket.
Considered using echo, but imagine the solution you provide is better.
Especially since I can turn it on and off.
thanks for providing the option.
On Wed, 17 Jul 2024, Jerome Shidel via Freedos-user wrote:
Hi Karen,
On Jul 17, 2024, at 7:31 PM, Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user
<freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
Hi all,
Let me outline what I mean.
In an effort to duplicate a sucessful ssh2d386 connection I make regularly, a
server manager wants to see the actual content, i. e. what shows on the screen
when a -v is added.
Linux has a few of these, keystrokes that send screen output to a file.
Anyone know the comparative method in DOS?
Thanks,
Karen
You can try Logger.
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/latest/pkg-html/logger.html
( or if you have network support, simply “FDNPKG install logger” )
It does not log directly to file. I records things that output to the screen to
memory. It can use up to 63Mb of XMS memory which is a minimum of about 8,000
screens in full color before it starts overwriting older text.
But, it can output the recording to plain text. If you want color, it can
output to ANSI text or HTML as well.
Logging can be turned off and on. There is also text documentation for talking
the Logger API from other programs. There are some assembly examples included
that demonstrate the different API functions.
There is a small compatibility issue with it’s built-in log viewer on some
hardware in the current version. It does not effect it’s logging or anything
important. Basically, on some hardware the cursor gets visually stuck in the
upper left corner of the screen after using the viewer. A simple video mode
reset gets it moving again. I will fix that annoyance eventually when I get the
time.
Side note… Viewing or sending the log to file will turn off logging until it is
turned back on again.
Nowadays, I have it in my config.sys and just boot with it on my various DOS
machines (FreeDOS, MSDOS and PCDOS) giving it 8Mb of memory for color logging
using DEVICEHIGH=C:\FREEDOS\BIN\LOGGER.COM COLOR 8192 XMS
But, it can be loaded using the FreeDOS program DEVLOAD (or equivalent) at
anytime.
It’s not perfect. But, It generally does a really good job. Mostly, it depends
on how a program is handling screen writes.
At some point, I will probably add hot-key support for things line turning
off/on logging, screen captures and other things.
:-)
Jerome
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